After Erik relates to his friend the Persian that he had never been kissed by a woman, not even his own mother. Christine and Raoul leave together, and it is implied that they were married. They weep together, in which Erik releases Christine and returns his gift, of his ring to her.
The most touching moment of the novel is Christine’s kiss on Erik’s forehead. The musical simplified Erik’s ultimatum, by demanding Christine choose between becoming his bride, or Raoul’s life. Fortunately, it did not come to that, and Christine turned neither. The dynamite was designed to blow up the opera house, “sky-high.” Erik presented Christine with the ultimatum of turning the Scorpion or the grasshopper as a refusal. This destructive detail is also omitted from the musical. If she turns the scorpion, she must marry Erik, if she turns the grasshopper, “It will jump Jolly High.” The Persian and Raoul discovered that the grasshopper was connected to a load of dynamite in the cellar. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions but performed unsuccessfully at the box office. The sinister ornament of the scorpion and of the grasshopper is placed before Christine to make a choice. The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher, a loose adaptation of the 1910 novel Le Fantôme de lOpéra by Gaston Leroux. It is one of the most frightening plot points of the novel.
The ultimatum of the Scorpion is never mentioned in the musical.
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